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Expert Profile: Jim Kennard

Expertise:  I can answer questions on vegetable gardening - Raised Beds, Container, Soil-Beds, "Poor Man's Hydroponics", Organic, etc.

Experience in the area
Gardened using The Mittleider Method for 30 years. Conducted seminars, college-level training programs, produced 80 video lectures, written hundreds of gardening articles, answered thousands of gardening questions, created a gardening website www.foodforeveryone.org with free ebook, free greenhouse plans, FAQ section with 355 gardening articles.

Organizations
Food For Everyone Foundation - President - Mission is "Teaching the world to grow food one family at a time."

Publications
Numerous website publications

Education/Credentials
Taught personally for 20 years by Dr. Jacob R. Mittleider, "The Garden Doctor", assisted him in creating and conducting major gardening training projects in America and Russia.

Awards and Honors
Master Mittleider Gardening Instructor

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Something controversial or provocative about this subject  It is amazing to some people that organic gardening and hydroponic growing can actually coexist in the same "method" or using the same principles and procedures.
What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field?  I hope to learn the answers to all important questions relating to growing vegetables, so that I can be of greater service to others.
Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:  Vegetable gardening can be done, and healthy, tasty food produced from any location that gets adequate sunlight - even a concrete patio or roof-top. And you don't need dirt! Sawdust and sand, with proper natural mineral nutrients, can produce a great harvest of tasty vegetables and fruit.
What do you like about this subject?  I believe everyone is better off by having a personal hand in providing for themselves, and that vegetable gardening also helps us feel closer to nature and to nature's God.
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User Comments
Thank you for the information, I hope to have a successful veggie garden next year.
(Kathy on 08/19/08)
Thank you. As a novice I appreciate the information, the learning experiance hopefully will be less stressful and more rewarding. Thanks again. Linda
(Linda on 07/28/08)
Thank you! I just have to figure out how to get sun to them! Mirrors? Lol.
(Ruth on 06/22/08)
Thank you!
(Ruth on 06/18/08)
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Recent Answers from Jim Kennard
2008-08-25  Camellia Phyllis: Some varieties of camellia prefer some shade, but most need at least some direct sunlight, or the flowering suffers. Our experience is that most flower varieties will do better in sun than...
2008-08-15  Best direction of rows It really doesn't matter which direction your rows go. What IS important is that all of your plants receive maximum exposure to direct sunlight all day long. To accomplish this, in addition to not...
2008-08-04  no flowers on many plants What vegetables are you growing? Many don't produce flowers until later, when they are going to seed. Rain shouldn't keep plants from producing flowers. In the 4 months we spent in Colombia this past...
2008-07-25  Sq ft. gardening/raised beds in greenhouse A good height for working would be 32" for the top of the beds. You could therefore build tables 24" tall on which to place your Grow-Boxes (containers). Whether you use wood or metal you will...
2008-07-25  Sq ft. gardening/raised beds in greenhouse I do not recommend plastic or rubber on the bottom of your containers. Usually the best bottom is no bottom at all, unless you have pests in the ground. To avoid problems with gophers, etc., use...
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